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Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist for the Amazon Alexa team. (GeekWire File Photo) When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker debuted in 2014, it was something of a ...

Developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)—or an AI smart as a human—is the “north star” for Amazon’s Rohit Prasad, who jumped from being Alexa’s head scientist to running a ...

A s one of the chief architects of Amazon’s Alexa, Rohit Prasad has been at the vanguard of artificial intelligence. Now, he is leading the company’s effort to catch up in the AI race.

Rohit Prasad grew up in the Star Trek era, fascinated by the idea of interacting with computers via voice. So he was excited to join the Amazon Alexa team a ...

As one of the chief architects of Amazon’sAMZN-0.24%decrease; red down pointing triangle Alexa, Rohit Prasad has been at the vanguard of artificial intelligence. Now, he is leading the company ...

Rohit Prasad grew up in the Star Trek era, fascinated by the idea of interacting with computers via voice. So he was excited to join the Amazon Alexa team a decade ago, working initially on far ...

Rohit Prasad, head scientist of Amazon’s Alexa, on the quest for omnipresent, human-sounding AI assistants.

Rohit Prasad is senior vice president and head scientist for Amazon Alexa. Prior to Amazon, he was deputy manager and senior director of the Speech, Language and Multimedia Business Unit at ...

Credit - Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source: Courtesy of Rohit Prasad) D eveloping artificial general intelligence (AGI)—or an AI smart as a human—is the “north star” for Amazon’s Rohit ...

India-born Rohit Prasad is the person who breathed life into Alexa, and led the technology side of the project almost from its inception; Prasad, an engineer from Jharkhand's Ranchi,was No. 15 on ...